Powerful Pieces of Paper
Education is crucial in life. It's pretty much a standard worldwide for children to attend school as early as kindergarten up to high school. Of course, there are cases where there are unfortunate people that are unable to go but I will not mention them in this post. Anyways once they finish their education at high school, it's up to them whether they want to go further in their education.
If you didn't know me already, I'm quite transparent and I love to be genuine so this is me sharing my diploma cert from high school and my degree cert from university. My posts are always honest and unique to me because they are all true things about myself. I have no reason to lie about my life.
Personally, growing up I didn't really enjoy school. Despite this, I still got decent grades and graduated from Folsom High School in 2014. After high school, I really had no interest in continuing for a degree. My mom had to kind of push me to go to community college and as a good son I just did it because she wanted me to. For those that don't know, community college is kind of like before college. They let you take the general courses there which is cheaper and after getting this done you could pretty much transfer to almost any college in the network. Back to the topic, my interest wasn't there so in the end I ended up quitting community college after the second semester. I worked for almost three years at a grocery store and some questions finally dawned on me. "Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life", "Will I just become a store supervisor like Mark in 10 years. After thinking through the answer to these questions, it made me realize that this is not the future I wanted.
In 2017, I decided to continue to get a Bachelor's Degree. I wanted a fresh start which led me to Malaysia. Honestly, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do as career so I took a degree in business since it can pretty much be applied to all businesses in life. I studied at Victoria University at Sunway campus so it was an Australian degree but I was able to study based in Malaysia. I was able to finish this Bachelor's degree in business management and innvoation in 2020 just right before covid started popping off. This is the level of education I am at currently.
After finishing my bachelor's degree, I really had no interest in studying a masters. I don't think studying was for me but at least it put my parents at ease after getting it. If I had the opportunity to continue for higher education, I don't think I would do it at least at this moment of time. I don't really need a master's for what I plan to do in my future.
I truly believe this depends on the person and their future career whether to continue for a master's degree and PHD. In my opinion, these pieces of paper (diploma / degree / PHD cert etc) are great and powerful but it doesn't determine our success in life. It only provides us a starting point or a better advantage in career opportunities in life. Of course for the super specialized jobs, this is super important I would definitely want a doctor to have the proper education to give me medical advice.
Ultimately it is up to us to continuously grow, learn and improve ourselves through experiences to achieve that so called success. To strive and to never give up. Follow the passion, follow the dream. Don't let dreams be dreams. Turn it into your reality as long as it's realistic to do so of course. We all have the potential to be great. Don't waste it. I hope I was able to inspire somebody today.
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Congratulations on your achievements @shawnnft. Your journey from high school to a bachelor's degree is quite the story. It's inspiring to see how you found your path and pursued your education, even if it meant taking a detour.
As for not enjoying school, well, who can blame you? It's not always a walk in the park, but you made it through with flying colors.
Your take on education and success is nice. You're right, those pieces of paper are important, but they're not the be-all and end-all. And hey, you're absolutely right about not letting dreams be dreams.
Keep being your genuine, inspiring self. Cheers.
Thank you so much iska. Yea it's been a wild ride for me lol. A lot of it is the typical not knowing what we want when we are young.
Well some people do enjoy school xD. I wouldn't say with flying colors but good enough to not have to spend more money to retake any subjects.
Thank you for saying that. I think everyone has different perspectives on it but nice to see some people see a similar point of view
Thanks for commenting and reading. Much appreciated. You also keep being great!
Thank you so much, darling. Your kind words mean a lot.
you're welcome!
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STOPCongrats young man! That's a great accomplishment and education is important. Maybe it's not where you want to go in the future but it's something, a base, for the now while you take steps to where you want to be. Never know, maybe later you will be compelled to go back, maybe not. You are right, degrees are great but also not everything in life and many other ways to be successful without them as well, some people learn better on their own and have the cleverness to do anything. It's all about mindset.
thank you ladyrainbow O.O. You think i will be compelled to go back?
Yes they aren't everything. there's a lot of geniuses that dropped out nots aying ill be like them but there are people that find success in other ways. You are right about the mindset. so when will you be bringing in the millions :P
You think I will be compelled to go back? Never know. Life never goes according to our own personal plans fully, sometimes it takes you thru a few left turns and what you thought you didn't need you do after all perhaps for a different more fun reason than you think now. doesn't mean you have to figure it all our right away or eat the whole cake in one bite (do all the school in one go). You have a base and a direction you want to go already. Get a feel for the job market, test your skills and build more , make some $$. Life is a journey not a race. One of the key to success is to be adaptable.
when will you be bringing in the millions Rome wasn't built in a day bud! 😂
fair enough. things change so maybe ill change and decide to go back one day. still not too fond of studying or writing some thesis though :x.
Well I think you can do it o.o . i saw some people start dropshipping and in less than a year they made their first million